Is gas a bi-product in oil refining?I seem to recall being told that & without cars to burn it would be waste.

Posted by on July 10, 2011 · 3 Comments 

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by Eddie Donovan

Question by just curious for answers: Is gas a bi-product in oil refining?I seem to recall being told that & without cars to burn it would be waste.

Since I can remember I’ve been told that without engines to burn gasoline we would’t know what to do with it

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Answer by Wingnut10890
Technically everything is a bi-product of oil refining. But I think what your thinking of is that diesel is a bi-product of gas.

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3 Responses to “Is gas a bi-product in oil refining?I seem to recall being told that & without cars to burn it would be waste.”
  1. lbhietala says:
    July 10, 2011 at 2:56 am

    The whole point of refining oil is to get the various petrochemicals out of it. So in refining oil, you get out gasoline, diesel, kerosene, etc. etc. It isn’t a byproduct, it’s an end product.

    Without vehicles to burn the fuel, there would be little point in refining oil, period.

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  2. ericjkent says:
    July 10, 2011 at 3:06 am

    Yes I believe you are correct actually I think the story is this. In the old days before they knew how to “CRACK” petroleum thet mostly processed it for the kerosene and gasoline was a waste by-product that they actually used to dump into our rivers and where-ever else it ended up.

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  3. Pedro S says:
    July 10, 2011 at 3:44 am

    gas is for engines but oil is used for plastic,,,drugs,all knids of manufactering….its in lipstick and 1000 other things…

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